Re: [Vserver] advanced routing per vps

From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert_at_13thfloor.at>
Date: Wed 20 Sep 2006 - 02:20:11 BST
Message-ID: <20060920012011.GA27412@MAIL.13thfloor.at>

On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 04:02:27PM +0200, Rik Bobbaers wrote:
> Herbert Poetzl wrote:
>
> >you do not need an ip address to bring an interface up :)
> >
> > ifconfig eth2 up
> > ifconfig eth2 down
>
> as said... if i restart interfaces, i don't want "weird old" ip
> addresses on the interface, so i put 0.0.0.0 on it ;)
> not really sure if that makes sense, but...
>
> don't even know if that's a good idea... anyone comments?
>
> >this config option will become a 'vlandev' in the near
> >future (probably already is in CVS/SVN), which will
> >make more sense here ...
>
> mkay, tnx :)
>
> >use counts are generally a bad idea, as we already
> >saw with the mainline behaviour on removing the
> >primary ip, etc ... mainly because you would have
> >to account for host actions too ... but feel free
> >to write your own 'book keeping' scripts and hook
> >them into the startup/shutdown
>
> yeah, you don't want a real use count, but you COULD check if there
> are routes over that vlan, if there are still routes, that means,
> there are still ip's on that vlan, so don't remove. or am i wrong
> here?

routes and addresses are only loosely coupled,
and the existance of one doesn't imply the other

> >wouldn't it be more appropriate to add those routes
> >to the appropriate tables?
>
> how do you mean? i don't think i completely get it... you see the
> scripts, what should be changed??? right now, i have 1 table per
> configured vlan. you suggest 1 table per virtual server?

yes, definitely, I'd put one routing table
per vserver guest, this way you can basically
have per guest routing and it will not affect
the other guests at all ...

HTH,
Herbert

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